...download their untainted sound in South Lakeland.

YOU would be forgiven for not owning a Bays album, because their unique selling point is that they're not trying to sell anything.

They do not record anything they play, and everything they play is a one-off like the gig at the Brewery Arts Centre next Thursday.

The Bays are independent musicians, Andy Gangadeen, Jamie Odell, Simon Richmond and Chris Taylor, who can be found on Friday nights at their weekly residency at Camden's Jazz Caf.

Untainted by the hand of consumerism and free from the shackles of music industry agendas, they believe the only way to make music in its purest form is to forget selling it.

"Our mission, if it has to be something specific, is trying to create music in the purest, least diluted form that is possible," said Andy.

"Firstly, on stage you are seeing a piece of music at its conception as opposed to the recreation of a moment long past, and secondly, off stage there's nobody swaying the direction of the music with agendas about marketing us to the unseen masses, cos we don't sell anything."

Their music is based on free-flowing nu-jazz and electronic funk, although anything from drum n' bass to reggae may appear out of the ether.

Every song, every performance is unique, it cannot be downloaded from iTunes or bought from HMV. The Bays generate a kind of continuous live DJ set backed up by bass, drums, keyboards, effects and samples creating new tracks on stage and remixing them live without prior planning.

"We constantly move on like musical nomads taking bits from here and there and working them into creating a sound that is totally our own, and there maybe is our ultimate goal. To be just The Bays."

The Bays play at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, on September 30, 8pm. For tickets, call the Box Office on 01539-725133.